On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 16:13, Ammon Christiansen wrote: > I have been using a floppy linux boot disk to boot to RedHat Linux > instead of WindowsXP. Windows doesn't seem to like to have to share or > anything when it installs. Do I need Partition magic or just lilo or > whatever Linux comes with to set it up. I just don't want to lose my > mbr or anything. I'm sure I've seen it come up before on the list. I > also don't know if partition magic is commercial software or not. I > figure it is... > > Thanks > > I'm just a newbie myself, but the following has worked for me. I first installed WindowsXP on my machine (I've done this for both my laptop and my desktop). At the very beggining of the XP install process you can partition the hard drive (beware, deleting and reformatting partitions with this tool will erase all your data). I formatted one NTFS primary partition for Windows XP, one FAT32 partition to share data between XP and Linux, and then just left the remaining space free for linux. Once XP was installed I went to installing RedHat Linux 9.0. During that install process I used Disk Druid to create and format the free space for linux using the suggested partitioning scheme on RedHat's site. I chose grub as the boot loader. Everything is working great! I wanted a fresh start with everything so I backed up my data and reformated the entire hard drive.
Whether or not this process changes the mbr or not I don't know. Linux is great. I'm really enjoying redhat and use it as my primary os now. Everything here may have seemed obvious, but maybe it will be of some use to you. john by the way, partition magic is proprietary _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
